Empirical paradigm - The role of experiments

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4336 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 25-32

  Kitchenham, Barbara ^a  

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ENGINEERING RESEARCH; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

SOCIAL SCIENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING STANDARDS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 36349004635     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71301-2_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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